Stores Use This Sneaky Trick to Get Moms to Buy More Clothes

I don't know about you, but I hate being manipulated. It feels rotten to find out that someone has preyed upon my deepest insecurities to get me to do something I otherwise wouldn't. It happens to women all the time -- like in your favorite store's dressing room. Yup, apparel shops know exactly where to get us. They're using this one sneaky trick to get us to pull out our wallets.

Skinny Mirror's Facebook page describes the company as "personal coaching" -- a mirror company. The page is filled with all kinds of body positive malarkey about how they make women feel more confident about themselves. And it just makes me sad.

I was willing to accept skinny mirrors in dressing rooms as just a fact of modern life. The point of the store is to get you to BUY, and who can blame them for using every tool at their disposal? It's the idea that a mirror that tricks you into looking slimmer is supposed to also build your self-confidence,that we're that feeble-minded and superficial, and that we'd buy the idea of mirrors having some sort of higher calling in life that I find icky.

Ladies, we all know where true self-confidence comes from, right? Say it with me now: FROM WITHIN.

Ugh, mirror company pretending to save the world, one woman at a time. We may go along with your silly carnival tricks, but you are NOT my personal coach.